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Last updated: 29th September 2025

Contents

Select recent and upcoming exhibitions and performances

Education

Select memberships, residencies, fellowships

Recent publications

Recent teaching, workshops, conference papers, artist talks

Select funding

Select Press and interviews

Select recent and upcoming exhibitions and performances:

2026

• House of Revision | GHT, Southampton (Forthcoming solo exhibition)

2025

• Sha La La | Raven Row, London (Performance)
• If One of Those Dots Stopped Moving Forever | Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Berwick (Moving image commision)
• AA2A WIP | University of Sunderland.

2024

• DIY OR DIE | Container, Bristol. (Digital artwork w/ Bella Paloma)
• Doppelgänger Rooms | Periphery Space, Gorey, County Wexford. (Collaborative project w/ artist Olivia Normile)
• Taking up Space | The Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle. (Group exhibition)
• Areas Of Effect: Planar Systems, Critical Roles, and Gaming Imaginaries | Arebyte, London. (Group exhibition )
• Peasants Revolt Now! | Prayer Room, Birmingham. (Group exhibition )
• Shape Open | London. (Group Exhibition)

2023

• Earth A.D. 2 | FACT, Liverpool. (Touring solo exhibition and digital artwork 2022-2025)
• The Well of Sickness Shimmering | Overkill Festival, Amsterdam. (Digital artwork w/ Bella Paloma)
• Take Care Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh/throughout Scotland. (Group exhibition)
• Joy of Destruction | Backlit, Nottingham. (Group exhibition )
• Elan Vitale | Container, Bristol. (Digital artwork)
• Out of Scale | Transmedialle, Berlin. (Group exhibition )

2022

• Allied Editions | Frieze, London. (Art fair)
• Hinterlands | Baltic, Gateshead. (Group exhibition)
• Earth A.D. | Wysing, Cambridge. (Touring solo exhibition and digital artwork 2022-2025)
• How to Practise Grieving in Eight Movements | Klosterruine, Berlin. (Group exhibition)
• Surface of Scum | MAYK, Bristol. (Digital artwork w/ Bella Paloma)

2021

• Animal Agency | 17th Athens Digital Art Festival, Athens. (Digital exhibition)
• Take The Moonlight by The Tail | Arebyte, London. (Digital artwork)
• Lich Way Party Train | Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge. (Digital artwork)
• Rhizodome | Gwenba.com. (Digital group exhibition)
• Unfolding Shrines | Shape Arts, London. (Augmented Reality group exhibition)
• Post-Doom | Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. (Digital artwork)

2020

• Animal Agency | FACT, Liverpool. (Digital artwork)
• All Flesh is Grass | Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga. (Group collaborative exhibition and role playing game)

2019

• Polymorph Other | Queens Hall Arts Centre, Hexham. (Group exhibition)

2018

• Broken Diorama | Dublin Digital Radio. (Radio play)
• Paperworks SERF, Leeds. (Performance)
• Sex and Other States | South Kiosk, London. (Performance and group exhibition)
• Polymorph Other | IMT Gallery, London. (Group exhibition)
• Its Origins are Indeterminate | The Whitechapel Gallery, London. (Performance)
• The Inhuman Ecstasy of Toxic Waste | Wormworm.org (digital commission)

2017

• Creature of Havoc | SERF, Leeds. (Solo project)
• Waste: A Symposium | Birkbeck College, London. (video installation)
• Janusware: Cycle 2 | Res. London. (Group exhibition)
• Janusware: Cycle 1 | Res. London. (Solo exhibition and performance)
• Heretics #12 | Rádio Quântica (Radio play)

2016

• Green Fuzz | Xero, Kline & Coma, London. (Two person exhibition w/ Alfie Strong)
• (It's All) Tropical Presents Blind Date | The Royal Standard, Liverpool. (Performance w/ Alfie Strong)
• The Dying Midwest of Thulsa Doom | Chisenhale Studios, London. (Performance)

Education:

2020

• AHRC funded PhD, title: “Becoming Ahuman: making it desirable to abandon certainty, including certainty of the self and play in this chaotic situation” | Northumbria-Sunderland Consortium, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

2008

• MA (full bursary), Sculpture | Royal College of Art, London.

2006

• First Class BA (Hons), Fine Art | University of East London, London.

Select memberships, residencies, fellowships:

2025

• 2025 Artist Fellow | Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.

2024

• AA2A Artist in Residence | University of Sunderland, Sunderland.
• Axis Fellow | AxisWeb, Wakefield.
• Listener in Residence, "With For About: When words fail" | Heart of Glass, Liverpool
• 2024 International Digital Fellow | Quad, Derby.
• Trustee | Broken Grey Wires, Liverpool

2023

• Shortlisted for The Arts Foundation Award: Digital Art | The Arts Foundation, Manchester.

2022

• Unseen Futures Fellow | Abandon Normal Devices, Manchester.
• Digital Residency with Alice Rekab | Arcade-Campfa, Cardiff.
• Access Steering Group Member | Wysing Arts Centre

2021

• Digital Solitude Assembly Residency | Arc Bucharest.
• 2nd prize for “Animal Agency” | Athens Digital Art Festival Audience Award,
• Access Advisory Group Member FACT, Liverpool
• Net//Work Digital Residency | British Council / Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge.
• Post-Doom Digital Residency | Akademie Solitude, Stuttgart.

2020

• Shortlisted for Adam Reynolds Award | Shape Arts, London
• Fact Together Fellowship | FACT, Liverpool.

2017

• Crip Theory Residency | Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge.

2016

• Work/Leisure Residency | Abingdon Studios, Blackpool.

Recent publications:

2025

• "Love as vector and void in Luce Irigaray's 'The Natal Lacuna' and Tai Shani’s 'Phantasmagoregasm'" | in JAWs, Intellect Books (forthcoming)
• "A Gathering" | Review in "Corridor8".
• "Peripheral" and "The Borrowed Car" | in GORE 3, Gore.
• "Six Questions; Hannah Leighton-Boyce and Uma Breakdown" | Axisweb.org
• "Deadfall" | in "I've had every deranged thought about …" by Dudley Dream Walsh, 2Queens, Leicester.

2024

• "The Parade" and "Unnatural* Urges" | Website texts for Glasgow International 2024.
• "The Dolls and The Egg" | Collaborative text with Belladonna Paloma in "Almanac Journal of Trans Poetics".

2023

• "Trans Death Magic" | Exhibition text for Slug Town, Newcastle.
• "Middlesbrough Art Week 2023" | Review in "Corridor8".
• "The Graveyard of Extension" | in "Deleuzine Vol. 2".
• "Uma Breakdown and Johanna Hedva talk LA Noir" | Two part podcast series at "Unseen Futures Kinopio", Abandon Normal Devices, Manchester.
• "Two Plus Two Makes Four: The Auxiliary, Middlesbrough" | Review in "Corridor8".
• "The Speculative Dismemberment of Agent Leon Kennedy" | In "A Wet and Heavy Noise". Market Gallery, Glasgow.

2022

• "Waste Work" | In "TEXTUR Issue 4". Textur, Berlin.

2021

• "Appropriate Technology" | In artist Holly White's publication "Leaving Biosphere 2". CCA, Glasgow.

2020

• "Oh_The _Guilt_Puss_3" | In "Chain/Mail Issue 1: North East". Corridor8
• "As Plain as its Meaningless Name" | In "On Care". Ma Bibliothèque, London.
• "Dungeons & Disaster" | In "Online Resources". NewBridge Project, Newcastle.

2019

• "Widening Circles" | In "The Graveside Orations of Carl Einstein". Ma Bibliothèque, London
• "Horse Bites Fence" | Co-editor w/ Elena Colman and Rebecca Bligh of this Arts Council England funded publication concerning art, disability, and radical solidarity.

2018

• "Gauge Fanfic" | In "The Bodies that Remain". Punctum Books, Santa Barbara.
• "Axpansion" | In "PaperWork Issue 3: Iilwimi lipsing". Paperwork, London
• "Farmer 9" | In "Alembic". Res., London.

2017

• "Interview" In "Lossy Ecology". Flat Time House, London.

Recent teaching, workshops, conference papers, artist talks:

2025

• "Ambient Animation". | Workshop for Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival
• "Writing for Games". | Workshop for New Writing North
• "Disaster Dungeons". | Workshop for New Writing North

2024

• "Critical Friend Conversations Artist". | Mentoring for Axis Arts
• "Graduate Mentor". | Mentoring for Axis Arts
• "Artist Support". | Disability access support and project management, for Arts Council England.
• "Tartarus in Bloom". | Public talk with Dr Amy Hale and Belladonna Paloma, at Quad, Derby.
• "Undertale Delete". | Guest lecture at SODA, Manchester Metropolitan University.
• "Relics". | Public talk with Joseph Buckley, Dr Karen Di Franco and Dr Alice Rekab, at FACT Liverpool.
• "Syllabus VII Artist Advisor". | Syllabus Artist development programme, Wysing Arts Centres, Eastside Projects, New Art Exchange, PS2, Spike Island, TACO, Studio Voltaire..

2023

• "A Knife Made of Refuse". | Public talk at The Center for Discursive Inquiry at CalArts, Santa Clarita.
• "Forest of Doom 2" | Workshop for "2023 Youth Festival", Wysing Arts Centre.
• "Uma Breakdown and Johanna Hedva". | Public talk at FACT, Liverpool.
• "Secret passages and arcane puzzles for the contemporary studio". | Workshop for "Into The Wild" artist development programme at Chisenhale Gallery, London.
• "My Coffin is a Spaceship" | Public talk with Evelyn Wh-ell for "Art/Work Association", at Auto-Italia South East, London.
• "Put Your Controller on the Floor" | Guest lecture delivered at Reality Check Festival, Enschede
• "Associate Lecturer in Fine Art" | Newcastle University, Newcastle.
• "Hellbound Hearts or, “I was rooting for Mephistopheles, and contemptuous of Faust" | Guest lecture and seminar, Yale University, Newhaven.
• "Esprit de corps / Corpse Explosion" | Guest lecture delivered at Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford.
• "Art as a Road Trip" | Workshop delivered at Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford.

2022

• "Art as a Monster that Always Comes Back" | Guest lecture delivered at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
• "An Anthology of Dead Ends" | Guest lecture delivered at University of Huddersfield.
• "Uma Breakdown in Conversation with Angela YT Chan and Dr. Tom Dillon" | live online event for Wysing Arts Centre.
• "Worldbuilding and Wellbeing" | Panel member for "Peer to Peer UK/HK", Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, and QUAD, Derby.
• "Forest of Doom" | Workshop delivered at "2022 Youth Festival", Wysing Arts Centre.
• "Art as a Road Trip" | Workshop delivered at "Jerwood Art FACT Fellowship", FACT, Liverpool.
• "Theft and System" | Workshop delivered at University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield.
• "Practice Based Art PhD Methodologies" | Workshop delivered at Reading University, Reading.

2021

• "Art as Waking up to a Nightmare" | Workshop delivered at "Horror Programme", University of The Underground, Berlin.
• "Art as a Road Trip" | Workshop delivered at "AMPlify", Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge.
• "Open Screen Panel Discussion" | Panellist for "Arebyte Open Screen", Arebyte Gallery London.
• "Art as a Road Trip" | Workshop delivered at "FACT Together", FACT Liverpool.
• "They Played us Like a Damn Fiddle" | Workshop delivered at "TROUBLE IN OUTER HEAVEN: PORTABLE OPS PLUS", Southwark Park Galleries.
• "Dungeon Mechanics" | Workshop delivered at "Feminist Painting School", Baltic, Gateshead.
• "Broken Vibes" | Artist talk delivered at "Merged Futures 3", Northampton University.

2020

• "Lead Maker" | International Centre for Life, Newcastle.

2019

• "Biofilm Mansion Theory, or Making as Collaboration with Disorder" | Conference paper delivered at "Interdisciplinary Conversations Around Making", Newcastle University.
• "Coming Soon, From Your Cemetary: Horror / Play / Instability / Desire" | Guest lecture delivered at Reading University.
• "There is no reason for you to live: 'No World Dreamers, Sticky Zeitgeist episode 2: Aperitif' as trans* ecriture Feminine" | Conference paper delivered at "Beyond the Console: Gender and Narrative Games", London South Bank University, London.
• "Research Assistant to Prof. Patricia McCormack" | Three month AHRC funded placement.

2018

• "Smeared into The Environment: Queer Horror and The Ahuman" | Conference paper delivered at "Horror, Cult, Exploitation II", Northumbria University.
• "Alembic II: Chrominance" | Panellist for publication launch, Res. Gallery, London.
• "Wild Pop: A Symposium" | Artist talk at Newcastle University.
• "Smeared into The Environment: Queer Horror and The Ahuman" | Conference paper delivered at "Don't Look: Representations of Horror in the 21st Century Symposium", University of Edinburgh.
• 'Biofilm Assemblages and Ahuman Horror" | Conference paper delivered at "Current Research in Speculative Fiction", University of Liverpool.
• "The Revolutionary Praxis of Urban Galls" | Conference paper delivered at "Open Graves Open Minds & Supernatural Cities present: The Urban Weird" University of Hertfordshire.

2017

• "Appropriation" | Taught semester long seminar series on BA Fine Art programme, Northumbria University.
• "Dog-Tech 1" | Conference paper delivered at "CDT Conference", Baltic Gateshead.

Select Funding:

2022

• North East Artist Fund | North East CVAN
• Trailblazer Fund | Bristol + Bath Creative R+D

2021

• Develop Your Creative Practice Bursary | Arts Council England

2020

• ArtsAdmin Bursary | ArtsAdmin

Select Press and Interviews:

2024

• "Eight Shows to See During Pride Month" | Seatle Times

  2023

  • "Uma Breakdown: Earth A.D. 2" | Corridor8
  • "Save Room" | Container
  • "An Interview with Uma Breakdown" | Art in Liverpool

  2021

  • "Free Your Mind. Death Will Come, Uma Breakdown in Conversation with Johanna Hedva" | akademie-solitude.de
  • "Unfolding Shrines is some of the most ambitious augmented reality art we have seen in the last year" | The Art Newspaper
  • "The best virtual things to do at home in April" | TimeOut

  2020

  • "In Conversation: Uma Breakdown and Lesley Taker" | Fact.co.uk

  2019

  • "Art, The Anthropocene, and the Grim Dark Future of Warhammer 40k" | Roman Road Journal

  2016

  • "(It’s All) Tropical present Blind Date" | Corridor8
  • "Review: Blind Date: (it’s all) Tropical at The Royal Standard" | Art in Liverpool